2010 FArt Competition

Maybe I'm going to draw you again.



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Okay, I can tell that you're excited about this idea, but how about mutant bipeds with octopi for torsos? Also, angry bees.

OK, voting community at large, your FArt Admin needs your input.

A City of Heroes group was recently set up over at deviantART. We've set up a section for 2010's FArt Competition, because its a great way to organize, archive, and (most importantly) display the entries to the interwebz! This also comes with the awesome bonus of us being able to use the polling feature to run the voting, which is very VERY handy.

I just want to know... do you all think it will be a huge problem for you to go to the page to vote rather than vote here? Accounts are free to set-up if you don't have one. This will also help the lurkers who no longer have an active gaming account. But I do recognize that this is the competition's home, so want your thoughts.

Looking forward to input!

Ah, I didn't even think of the non-pressured voting! That's a good pro (as you said, it could also be seen as a con... but I'm calling it more of a pro). I know during the last competition there was more than one instance of people having to defend their votes and it seemed to sour the overall fun. Keeping it as "just by the numbers", so to speak, should go a long way to putting a stop to that this year.

Also, to also put aside any fears, this will not be an anything goes sort of competition. I have no problem disqualifying entries if they don't abide by the rules/theme. I don't want any accusations on this matter hurled towards artists.... if people think there's an entry that doesn't meet the criteria for the month, they can come to me about it. So if it makes it to voting, be assured that its been screened to be acceptable.

If you open the voting up on there, then I think it kinda makes it a general art contest and not so specifically a CoH contest. Conceivably, people who are in no way related to this game can vote/comment. (Which is fine, so long as we're aware of it.)

Yeah, I've been trying to futz around with the Polls. Unfortunately there is no way to limit polling on that site. Any person with a dA account can vote on the polls located on that FArt gallery page, regardless of membership status with the City of Heroes Group page but it is still completely anonymous. I would hope though that folks wouldn't feel the need to pull shenanigans like opening up multiple accounts to get more votes for the FArt contest. Granted, participants can try to get friends to register with dA and participate the FArt polls...and while that could possibly turn it into a popularity contest, the flip side of having more visitors/drawing more members to the group isn't such a bad trade off.

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It should be noted that qualifying submissions will be screened by Wassy and put into an organized gallery prior to the commencement of voting.

I was assuming polling limited to members...

As Bayani says, I don't suspect there'd be much (if any) creating of accounts just to vote until maybe the end when things get tight Still doubt there would be but *shrug*

But with wide open polling that does lead to the artist with the most watchers having an advantage, no?

That's an easy work around

weight the votes i.e.

dA votes counts for one point, votes here count for three

For the reasons stated above, I'd vote against holding the contest on DA but if Wassy chooses otherwise, it wouldn't affect my interest or participation (in whatever scope) in it.

I think I would rather deal with Artz TrLoLz here than any possible Asshatery voting on the DA Site. I think the DA site would be great to mirror the discussions here and bring more people into the mix, heck a public poll over there would be cool too but it should not be the final decider for the contest.

-Tigs

If people will feel that strongly about voting, then I would concede that voting should be kept here. However, I do believe that the art submissions for the contests should be posted by the participants on the dA page. Having a neat, organized gallery to host all of them would be nicer than just posting them one by one in a forum thread here.

Well I'd prefer voting on dA if a way to keep voting to group members could be found...

I think the art should definitely be hosted there, both so the artist can have a bit more freedom if needed and so that it can all be found in one place without going through tons of chatter to find one piece or another...

The only problem I see with the art on the CoH Group is I believe Wassy wanted to extend the freedom a bit more than would be accepted on these boards and from the sounds of it you also want to keep the CoH Group on dA just as workplace friendly....?

There's also the option of outside polling sites which require registration so that people who aren't CoH players anymore could still take part.


Also: There is no such thing as G-rated art!